Before the last election I made a few, seemingly outrageous, statements about the dangers of a national government. Not so outrageous now me thinks.

But when you remember things like the subsidised breaking in of marginal land, subsidies for farmers to produce products that were sold at a loss, think big projects that almost bankrupted the country and made a few merchant bankers and their mates billions of dollars then nationals proposal to ruin much of our conservation estate should come as no surprise.

I bet you could not get our 2 local national MP’s to front up to a public meeting on this issue – as they are just toadies to the big boys.

But in any case I will line up with Greenpeace members and others & chain myself to the first road they build into such land for a mine. I hope this is the beginning of the end of this national government.